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Plans for Britain’s first new nuclear power station for a generation could be
delayed by a legal challenge by the Austrian government, which claims that
Britain has pledged an illegal subsidy.

Austria yesterday lodged an appeal at the European Court of Justice against
the European Commission, which approved the government’s plan to pay EDF
double the present market price of electricity for 35 years for power from
Hinkley Point C in Somerset.

Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, said: “Subsidies are there to support
modern technologies that lie in the general interest of all EU member
states. This is not the